Indigenous

Blocking energy projects and boycotting the fur industry is a mere extension of their attitudes once relayed in the Indian Act that the federal government knows what’s best, from protecting one’s culture, their property, or ensuring the prosperity of one’s people. Often, they leave us sorely disappointed, from siding with eco-colonizers to sharing condescending views of the First People’s – that is the antithesis of reconciliation. As Sloan puts it, give Canada’s Indigenous communities their right to self-governance, and their economic liberation will follow suit.

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While the Keystone XL addition is expected to create 7,000 jobs, 5,600 which are in construction, Eagle Spirit will create tens of thousands more jobs. Approximately 130,000 in construction and 34,000 permanent positions, according to a Facebook post by Calvin Helin. That could rise to as much as 170,500 permanent positions if production doubles in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin – Canada’s major crude oil-producing region.

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It’s incredibly racist for these white urban Easterners to treat Indigenious people out west like they are inferior to them and must submit themselves to eco-colonial ideology and do as commanded with their own land.

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It should go without saying due to the excessive property damage, civil disturbances, squatting, and other illegal activity that those protesting under the banner of the Wet’suwet’en do not speak for Indigenous people. After RCMP removed the protesters off the Coastal Gaslink construction site in B.C., the radical environmentalists tipped their hand by immediately protesting […]

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Gladue Beauregard: With a history of antisemitism, York is home to far-left ideologues that undermine Jewish self-determination. Given the government’s attempts to undermine Indigenous self-determination, notably, through White Paper, the shirt “Anti-Zionist vibes only” is akin to rejecting Indigenous self-determination on their traditional lands.

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January 27th the City of Saskatoon’s council unanimously approved the displaying of Treaty 6 Métis Nation flags at city-run facilities in a display of respect for the traditional owners of the land.

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Premier Kenney: “This will be a game-changer for Indigenous communities seeking to be owners of resource projects. It will also help all Albertans to get resource projects done. With the board now in place, the AIOC can now fulfil its mandate to enfranchise Indigenous communities in Alberta, to lift their people from poverty to prosperity by becoming partners in the energy projects that have created so much wealth for our province.”

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MNC had severe concerns with MNO granting Métis citizenship to people living in Eastern Ontario. This is due to standards set by the MNC to judge who legitimately has Métis ancestry. Often it is regionally restricted based on no evidence that Métis communities have ever existed in certain areas.

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Make no mistake, “Terry Fox is Métis,” says Darrel Fox.

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Though experts argue there was no documented evidence indicating it was used to purposely spread smallpox. By the same token, they “can’t guarantee it never happened.” According to the diary entries of William Tomison, inland master of HBC in 1778, his account of the smallpox epidemic of 1781 and 1782 “is the most detailed record of the first catastrophic epidemic known to have affected the native populations of the (Canadian) plains.”

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